she got some of the soot and mercury out of the air we breathe. she saved miles and miles of appalachian streams from coal mining. and she was the face of the administration in the gulf of mexico after the bp oil disaster there. >> reporter: epa officials say jackson's use of a private email account with a persona based on a family pet and former relatives isn't unusual. her public account drew almost 2 hill emails and was impractical for her to use. the emails are subject to the freedom of information act. and some 3,000 of them are set to be released on monday pursuant to a request filed by chris horner of the competitive enterprise institute. >> already with three emails that i've found we have lisa jackson's named acting replacement on the correspondence with the false identity. we have at least three lawyers. we are going to find i suggest a very interesting list of correspondents who were going along with saying nothing about, not a secondary email account but a false identity created for help federal recordkeeping purposes. >> reporter: the